Wee Hours Revue

Roman Candle - Wee Hours Revue

Wee Hours Revue
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Artist: Roman Candle
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-20
Music Label: V2 North America
Soundtracks:
  1. Something Left To Say - Roman Candle
  2. You Don't Belong To This World
  3. Another Summer - Roman Candle
  4. I Can't Even Recall
  5. New York This Morning
  6. Help Me If You Can - Roman Candle
  7. Baby's Got It In The Genes
  8. Winterlight - Roman Candle
  9. I've Got A Reason - Roman Candle
  10. Merciful Man
  11. Sookie - Roman Candle
  12. From An Airplane Window - Roman Candle

Music reviews of Wee Hours Revue

Music Review: Three years in the making and does not dissappoint
Rating: 5 Stars

The way I would summarize this album is:
Chris Stamey is just like the rest of us - he puts his pants legs on one at a time. Except, once his pant are on, he produces(what should be) gold records.

I've been listening to local music for 14 years now, and this is by far my favorite act to come out of the triangle in that time. I still remember being excited to see a friend play with Chris Stamey and Thad Cockrell(who was already one off my favorites) three years ago, only to be blown away by the opening act. We've all loved their live shows, and Says Pop! was a nice collections of the songs we heard there. The Wee Hours Revue, however, is a brilliant remaster/remix/re-recording/re-engineer/re-whatever of those same songs. I can clearly make out Skip's vocals (I always wondered why patients were on the savings and loan and thought watching commas in the air was just plain silly)and every layer of instrumentation is audible (keyboards and guitar tracks are either added or brought up to a more appropriate level). There are a few tracks where the tinniness of the original vocals is evident (particularly Help Me if You Can).
While the relative rockers (You Don't belong to This World, I Got a Reason) are still my favorites, the ballads (Sookie and Merciful Man were not compelling on Says Pop! but shine here in my opinion) are the songs that pay off from the new
sound the most, including the quasi-bonus track (Driving at Morning is listed in the liner but not on the back of the CD case).

All-in-all a fine recording that lives up to the wonderfully crafted songs of the Matheny's et al. I look forward to the release party Thursday and hopefully don't have to wait as long for a recording of RC's other fine songs (Waiting for June,
Modern Radio). I also hope the outside world will take to this band as much as I have, so that we are able to hear RC's music for many years to come.


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Description of Wee Hours Revue

Roman Candle makes well-crafted music, with an attention to detail and a gritted teeth determination that's hard to find these days. They're a country-rock band with a fierce backbone of soul. Not so much the alt-country of Wilco, but more the country forays of the "Angie"-era Rolling Stones; a big, wide sound played with exuberant abandon. "One of NC's best bands, Roman Candle clashes like early Kinks at times, then aches like Ryan Adams" - The Charlotte Observer.
It must be the Carolina curse--like fellow natives Whiskeytown, Roman Candle found themselves in major-label limbo after signing with Hollywood in 2002 and seeing their debut album shelved without release. Better late than never, a remixed, reworked, and retitled version surfaces here. While the reedy vocals of frontman Skip Matheny fit comfortably into the alt-country camp, the band's penchant for pop craftsmanship finds a kindred spirit in producer Chris Stamey. The rapturously romantic and melodically transcendent "You Don't Belong to This World" recalls the Southern-pop heyday of Big Star and Stamey's dB's, as the stylistic range of the band (which also includes Matheny's wife Timshel on keyboards and brother Logan on drums) extends from the hard-edged tale of betrayal in "Another Summer" to the soulful balladry of "I Can't Even Recall," with its organ bedrock and brass arrangement, and the McCartneyesque lilt of "Baby's Got It in the Genes." The influences are classic and timeless, but the production sounds aggressively modern. --Don McLeese

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